A FINE ANDO MORIAGE CLOISONNE VASE

WITH ANDO JUBEI MARK INLAID IN SILVER WIRE, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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A FINE ANDO MORIAGE CLOISONNE VASE
With Ando Jubei mark inlaid in silver wire, Meiji Period (late 19th century)
Of baluster form decorated in various tones of coloured enamels with silver wire depicting a persimmon tree branch in light beige with fruits in bright orange and yellow, the fine leaves in tones of blue and green on a pale greyish-green ground
13¾in. (35cm.) high

拍品專文

This is among the finest and largest examples of Ando Jubei's work in the moriage technique, in which the enamels are raised in relief within the individual cells: it also demonstrates how the musen [wireless] and shosen [reduced or eliminated wire] techniques, originally devised and perfected by Namikawa Sosuke of Tokyo, had spread to other centres, allowing enamel artists to produce designs which transcended their medium and aspired to the expressive potential of painting. It is remarkable that such accomplished pieces were produced within about fifty years of the rediscovery of enamelling in Japan.

For a box by Ando Jubei with the same motif and technique, see Impey, Oliver and Fairley, Malcolm (eds.), The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art, vol. 3, Enamels, (London, 1994), no. 48. A related box was shown at the Japan-Britain exhibition in London in 1910.